Another 13

opens with the loveliest ambrette and a very prominent iso e super. it's warm and musky, sweet and floral, woody and buttery-creamy. i don't know how better to describe it than the embodiment of coziness. i suppose it is a "clean-skin" scent, but more specifically, i'd describe it as post-luxurious-bubble-bath lotioned-skin wrapped in the softest blanket fresh from the dryer. the cetalox adds a quiet complexity to the mix. it smells expensive. i believe the ambrette here is spearheading many of the glossier "you" comparisons, but i don't see the similarity at all. gradually, these notes become more subdued, and the cetalox grows more front-and-center. it makes this stage very molecular and almost identical to juliette has a gun's "not a perfume superdose", but there is also the fresh and faintly-cooling moss note that distinguishes it here. it's cool, clean, tart, musky, woodsy, and almost peppery and metallic, appended with the complementary aromatic mossiness. i imagine that this is the most polarizing part that turns many away, because it is indeed very unnatural, but in a way that's addicting to me. the final dry-down hours later loses most of the cetalox, making for a less-offensive scent that has a powderier, muskier, and much more prominent amber quality as well as a light, pear-esque fruitiness. i am reminded of jhag's "pear inc" here.

idk if the bottle i have now is just defective, but it dosnt last and dosnt project like the sample i have of it does. maybe it was reforumulated this past year or something but idk. it still smells really good and has a great pear note alongside all the other accords that its famous for, but it just dosnt hit the same as the first sample i tried of it. i bought a 100ml bottle about 5 months ago and its almost gone because i have to spray so much to even smell it sometimes. I know most reading this will be screaming that ive gone noseblind to it, but anyone ive ever asked to smell me cant really detect it either, wasnt that way with the sample. prolly still gonna buy another bottle cuz fuk it. this perfumes the right amount of pretentious, a quality thats hard to find imo.

This is my partner's signature scent and it totally changed my understanding of fragrance for men. I don't like traditionally masc scents (blame the axe over-sprayers of my high school hallways), so when we met and this was what he was wearing, it made me like him even more. I got a sample-size of it in a Le Labo sampler and when I miss him, I spray a little bit on me. What I love most about this is is really does adapt to your skin chemistry and on initial spray it smells the same, but the way it develops on him and on me is different. If I didn't associate it so much with it being his thing, I would own a full size bottle myself, it is so good.

I never thought I'd fall for a ambroxan type scent, flash forward to a perfume trade where someone "included" this. This has sent me down a Le Labo rabbit hole, which I LIKE some of the others, Another 13 is my favorite by far. Its a perfect elavated every day scent. It lingers without being a room filler. I wish this was more afordable. I have tried some simlar scents. I had Not another, YOU, NOYZ(kinda close, but not really)and the dupes. Its literally untouchable. I WISH I didn't love it so much, and I WISH the projection was just a bit stronger.

I absolutely love this fragrance. I love the notes they are my favorite notes for perfume but oddly before I read that I wouldn’t have guessed those were the notes that made it, oddly enough. I just think it’s blended so perfectly. I have the body oil which I preferred, it’s absolutely my kind of scent - I love Nemat Amber and 11 11, and everyone claims nose blindness to the most gorgeous scents in my opinion. Definitely expensive but you’re in its bubble and I adore it, I can definitely smell it all day.